8 Appendix C: Product Behavior

The information in this specification is applicable to the following Microsoft products or supplemental software. References to product versions include updates to those products.

  • Windows 8 operating system

  • Windows Server 2012 operating system

Exceptions, if any, are noted in this section. If an update version, service pack or Knowledge Base (KB) number appears with a product name, the behavior changed in that update. The new behavior also applies to subsequent updates unless otherwise specified. If a product edition appears with the product version, behavior is different in that product edition.

Unless otherwise specified, any statement of optional behavior in this specification that is prescribed using the terms "SHOULD" or "SHOULD NOT" implies product behavior in accordance with the SHOULD or SHOULD NOT prescription. Unless otherwise specified, the term "MAY" implies that the product does not follow the prescription.

<1> Section 1.7:  IPAM Management Protocol Version 1 is implemented in Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 only.

<2> Section 3.1.1.3:  Windows implementation calculates this value using the maximum operation timeout value that can be configured in the registry. The registry value is under the key HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\IPAM and with the name OperationTimeoutMins. This is of type REG_DWORD. The value retrieved is used to compute the KeepaliveGraceCount as KeepaliveGraceCount = (OperationTimeoutMins * 60000)/15000.

<3> Section 3.1.4.12:  The minimum operating system version supported by the Windows implementation of this protocol

<4> Section 3.3.4.42:  Windows IPAM server returns a version with MajorVersion 6 and MinorVersion 2.